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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don’t know what Tom knows right now.

The Shiv scenes are the only ones I care about right now.

[b]The whole thing with Kendall and Roman and living plus or whatever made no sense and was dumb. Sorry. Dumb dumb. Not believable, and dumb. [/b][/quote]

It's... an old folks home? But with film directors stopping by to screen movies? And also maybe we'll figure out how to help you live an extra 50 years I don't know how don't ask but we're looking into it?

I was annoyed that it played well in the room and looked like a win for Kendall after his presentation was over. I mean, I guess it's more interesting if Kendall and Roman don't instantly fall flat on their faces and lose to Lukas/Shiv/Geri/Karl/everyone rooting against them, but it still strains credulity. I think IRL a presentation like that would get eviscerated on Twitter and wind up knocking the company's stock price down. But what do I know.[/quote]

And yet investors gave Elizabeth Holmes billions for Theranos. Never underestimate how far you can get with a bit of confidence and the ability to lie fluently. Of course, it *usually* catches up with you eventually. [/quote]

Sure but at least the idea behind Theranos sounded like a really good one. They didn't have the tech to back it up and just lied about it for years, but if it was actually possible to run a myriad of blood tests from a single drop of blood, on a machine that you could keep on your kitchen counter, that would actually solve a bunch of problems for a bunch of people. It's terrible what Theranos did but I actually understand why a lot of people bought into it, because the underlying concept is something really great.

Whereas Living+, on it's face, sounds dumb. Or at least very original. It's a fancy old folks home? A cruise on dry land? Who is asking for these things. Wealthy old people use their money to stay out of these closed communities that warehouse the elderly. No one wants a cruise experience without a boat. There is zero demand for this.

Sure, Kendall threw in the part about "what if we could extend life?" but it was transparently imaginary. Like he literally walked it back as he said and landed on "wouldn't that be amazing?" If that's how Elizabeth Holmes had first pitched Theranos, I think people would have been like "oh."[/quote]

I live in Florida and I promise there are plenty of old people who are excited to live in a cruise ship on land. [/quote]

Walt Disney himself proposed this in the 50s. Disney has created neighborhoods like this. [/quote]

Yeah, Celebration is a good comp. It's not totally the same - but close enough that I see this as actually kind of feasible. I was thinking of the Villages, too. [/quote]

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